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Indonesia’s Base Entertainment and Netherlands-based New Amsterdam have partnered on two projects, the companies revealed at the inaugural Jaff Market that takes place alongside the Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival (Jaff) in Yogyakarta (Jogja) from Dec. 3-5.

The collaboration includes “Hemelrijk,” a limited series from writer-director Jim Taihuttu, who previously worked with both companies on “De Oost” (“The East”). The second project is a feature adaptation of Indonesian author Leila Chudori’s novel “Pulang” (Home).

Production on “Hemelrijk” is set to begin in late 2025, while development on “Pulang” will start in early 2025.

The announcement came during a Jaff Market session focused on the recently signed co-production treaty between Indonesia and The Netherlands.

“We are thrilled to collaborate again with Jim Taihuttu on the series ‘Hemelrijk,’ which he has written and will direct, and with New Amsterdam on these two projects, including the adaptation of Leila Chudori’s novel ‘Pulang (Home...

The newly signed co-production treaty between the Netherlands and Indonesia aims to strengthen bilateral film collaboration, providing filmmakers from both countries access to national funding schemes and production incentives, industry leaders revealed at the inaugural Jaff Market in Jogja, Indonesia during a panel.

The inaugural Jaff Market takes place alongside the Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival (Jaff) in Yogyakarta from Dec. 3-5. The panel was moderated by producer Lorna Tee of An Original Picture Nl, who also serves as Jaff Market advisor.

Sandra den Hamer, CEO of the Netherlands Film Fund, highlighted that the treaty emerged from grassroots interest rather than top-down policy. “It comes from the filmmakers and producers. There’s a lot of interest to make films together, or to make films in Indonesia, to retell our history,” she said.

The treaty follows successful agreements the Netherlands has established with Canada, China, France, Germany, Norway and South Africa. With South Africa,...

FX has set the cast of its new murder mystery series “Retreat,” which already has “The Crown” alum Emma Corrin set in the lead role. Joining Corrin in the limited series will be Clive Owen, Harris Dickinson, Brit Marling, Alice Braga, Jermaine Fowler, Joan Chen, Edoardo Ballerini, Raúl Esparza, Pegah Ferydoni, Ryan J. Haddad and Javed Khan.

“Retreat” is described as a “radical conceptualization” of the whodunit with a new kind of detective at the helm. Corrin plays a gen Z amateur sleuth named Darby Hart who, along with 11 other guests, is invited by a reclusive billionaire to participate in a retreat at a “remote and dazzling” location. But when one of the other guests turns up dead, Darby must fight to prove it was a murder “against a tide of competing interests before the killer takes another life.”

The original series hails from Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, who wrote,...

2021 is nearly in the books and Hulu is celebrating by heading back to the past…like, the way past. With its list of new releases for December 2021, Hulu is going positive Medieval with two swords and shield original series arriving this month.

Animated comedy Crossing Swords premieres its second season on Dec. 10. This stop-motion style tale follows Patrick (Nicholas Hoult) as he works his way up the feudal latter of The Kingdom. This will be complemented by Dragons: The Nine Realms on Dec. 23. This series is set in the How to Train Your Dragon universe and takes place over 1,000 years after the events of the films. In it, a group of modern day kids uncover the secret truth about dragons.

Hulu also has some more current options for TV this month. Original comedy Pen15 premieres the second half of its second season on Dec. 3. Watch it to relive the trauma...

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Will The Netherlands submit "De Oost", currently streaming on Amazon?

For those of you who like to follow the admittedly super niche drama of the submission battles for Oscar's best International Feature Film race, we have another finalist list to report. The Netherlands will be announcing their submission in early October but we have their 14 wide finalist list. The first thing to note is that Paul Verhoeven's excellent lesbian nun drama Benedetta is not on it. Perhaps it's because the Dutch director who The Netherlands have submitted four times  is now working in France mostly. Elle, his most recent previous picture, was a submission for France and perhaps Benedetta wasn't deemed Dutch enough? Only three of the fourteen possibilities from The Netherlands have anything like an international profile and all three are about young soldiers so we suspect the Dutch will be sending a war drama.

Documentaries about a da Vinci and a dictator, a Pablo Larraín drama with Gael Garcia Bernal, a Donnie Yen martial arts thriller by the late Benny Chan, and Coda — Apple’s record-busting Sundance acquisition — make specialty bows this weekend as the arthouse sector fights through a slow reopening.

“The market is still finding a balance right now,” said Kyle Westphal, theatrical sales manager for Music Box Films (and programming associate for Chicago’s Music Box Theatre). The distributor debuts Larraín’s Ema in 11 theaters in nine markets with plans to expand thereafter — to maybe another 20, but it’s hard to say. “The normal [criteria] like what’s your opening per-screen average right now, those are all upside down,” Westphal tells Deadline.

He said a strong perf by Anthony Bourdain doc Roadrunner (Focus Features) and The Green Knight (A24) “doing as well as it has over the past few weeks, are good signs.

FX has greenlighted Retreat, a limited series from The Oa creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij. Marling will play a key role in the mystery series which follows Darby Hart, a Gen Z amateur sleuth, as she attempts to solve a murder at a secluded retreat. The network is expected to confirm the pickup during its portion of the summer TCA virtual press tour.

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In Retreat, which puts a new spin on the classic whodunit, Darby and 11 other guests are invited by a reclusive billionaire to participate in a retreat at a remote and dazzling location. When one of the other guests is found dead, Darby must fight to prove it was murder against a tide of competing interests and before the killer takes another life.

During FX’s executive session at the virtual summer TCA press tour, FX Networks chairman John Landgraf...

The East Trailer — Jim Taihuttu‘s The East / De Oost (2020) movie trailer has been released by Magnolia Pictures and Magnolia Releasing. The East trailer stars Martijn Lakemeyer, Marwan Kenzari, Jonas Smulders, Coen Bril, Jeroen Perceval, Huub Smit, David Wristers, Robert de Hoog, and Reinout Bussemaker. Crew Mustafa Duygulu and Jim Taihuttu wrote the [...]

Continue reading: The East (2020) Movie Trailer: A Soldier in an Elite Unit during Post-WW2 Begins Questioning His Brutal Captain...

The ethics of war burden a soldier in Magnet Releasing and New Amsterdam Film Company’s “The East.” Taking years to complete, the project stands as a testament to new attitudes towards filmmaking on a global scale. It also proves to be a nuanced exploration of psychology through a battle against authority.

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Director Jim Taihuttu comes to the film years after his work with “Rabat” and “Wolf.” Critics warmly received both, but it was Taihuttu who made a choice to pursue his interests in music.

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"The only way to destroy terror is with more terror." Magnolia Pictures has released an official trailer for a Dutch war movie titled The East, also known as De Oost in Dutch. The film premiered at the Nederlands Film Festival last year, and is getting a US release starting this August. A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-wwii independence efforts in the Netherlands' colony of Indonesia, known as the Indonesian War of Independence (from 1945-1949), finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander's elite squad. The tagline says it is "a war between duty and conscience." Isn't that what most wars are about? The East stars Martijn Lakemeyer as Johan de Vries, with Marwan Kenzari, Jonas Smulders, Abel van Gijlswijk, Coen Bril, and plenty of others. This looks like another worthwhile war thriller trying to address that guilty conscience of why white men felt so driven to colonize.